robert@polari.UUCP (robert) (03/07/90)
I just found the following notice posted in comp.archives. The notice was apparently not cross posted to comp.sys.mac or comp.sys.mac.programmer, so I thought I would post it here myself. If it's on the level, this sounds like a good deal for users of Absoft MacFortran. McFace, from what I've heard, is a subroutine library designed for people who want to slap a quick interface on Fortran programs that they are porting to the Mac. I've never used it, but there was a favorable review in MacTutor (Vol 3, No. 7 or see "The Essential MacTutor", page 522). According to the notice below, it's FREE! And that's a price that's hard to resist. A site for anonymous FTP is given below. Now, if some kind sole would just post it to comp.binaries.mac ? > From: XB.N54@forsythe.stanford.edu (SCA) > Newsgroups: comp.archives > Subject: [comp.lang.fortran] Macintosh Interface Tools Available > Message-ID: <11225@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> > Date: 2 Mar 90 02:33:38 GMT > Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu > Reply-To: XB.N54@forsythe.stanford.edu (SCA) > Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran > Lines: 39 > Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) > > Archive-name: mcface/v4.0 > Original-posting-by: XB.N54@forsythe.stanford.edu (SCA) > Original-subject: Macintosh Interface Tools Available > Archive-site: dendrite.stanford.edu [36.83.0.61] > Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) > > Summary: McFace 4.0 released for public distribution announcement > Keywords: McFace, Fortran, Macintosh, user interface, public release > > > McFace Tools 4.0 released for public distribution > Tensor Laboratories > > Tensor Laboratories announces the public availability of McFace 4.0. > McFace Tools was created to assist Fortran programmers on the > Macintosh add a Macintosh interface to their programs. McFace > Tools requires Absoft Fortran for the Macintosh. McFace Tools is > written in Absoft Fortran, all source code is included. > > McFace Tools was originally released in 1986 as a commercial product. > It has evolved continually, however, now Tensor Laboratories would > like to thank its customers and provide the entire Macintosh Absoft > Fortran community with this latest release, free of charge. > > The hub for distribution of McFace Tools is the anonymous ftp site > dendrite.Stanford.EDU (36.83.0.61). Tensor Labs encourages any and all > users, BBSs and user groups to copy and distribute copies of McFace > Tools to interested parties. > > > {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Tensor Laboratories}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} > ********************************************************************** > Tensor Laboratories Internet: XB.N54@Forsythe.Stanford.Edu > P.O. Box 9723 Bitnet: XB.N54@Stanford > Stanford, CA 94309 anonymous ftp: dendrite.Stanford.EDU > ********************************************************************** > {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Tensor Laboratories}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} > > Brand and product names are registered trademarks of their respective > holders. |***********************************************************************| |Robert Riebman | robert@polari | |Northwest Information Technology | | |P.O. Box 3156 | My own boss and jailer. | |Redmond, WA 98073 | | |***********************************************************************|
svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol) (03/10/90)
In article <1358@polari.UUCP> robert@polari.UUCP (robert) writes: > > > I just found the following notice posted in comp.archives. The notice > was apparently not cross posted to comp.sys.mac or comp.sys.mac.programmer, > so I thought I would post it here myself. If it's on the level, this > sounds like a good deal for users of Absoft MacFortran. McFace, from > what I've heard, is a subroutine library designed for people who want > to slap a quick interface on Fortran programs that they are porting > to the Mac. I've never used it, but there was a favorable review in > MacTutor (Vol 3, No. 7 or see "The Essential MacTutor", page 522). > According to the notice below, it's FREE! And that's a price that's > hard to resist. A site for anonymous FTP is given below. Now, if some > kind sole would just post it to comp.binaries.mac ? > Let me clear up some confusion here, so that people DO NOT think that they are geting something different than what they really are. About 3-4 years ago a gentleman by the name of Dan Kampmeier, at the University of Illinois wrote a program that was known as McFace. It was a library of toolbox routines which made putting a Mac Interface onto Fortan code _EXTREMELY_ easy. With just a few alls to his library, you would have anb application with full featured menus, dialogs, multiple windows, etc. Sometime after that, there came a companion product called McFace Tools which is the subroutine library which complimented McFace and added some add't functionality to the McFace library. This is the library that is now avail free from FTP and has NEVER been reviewed in MacTutor (that was McFace). I have not seen this product since version 1.0 (and it is now 4.0) so I can not comment on its current form - but it's free.... As to what happened to the original McFace, Dan renamed it to FaceIt and has a nice business of selling it along with _MANY_ new 3rd party modules for doing other types of interface extensions. FaceIt now also supports most /all langugges for the Mac (Pascal, C, Fortran, BASIC, Modula-2, etc.) and is still a quick and easy way to add a Mac interface to your code. It is more powerful than things like the TCL/MacApp w/o the learning curve of OOP - but it is nowhere close to as customizable. Still nice for porting code, though. Hope that clears things up. -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025